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A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.
v. t. e. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (Golpe de Estado en Guatemala de 1954) deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and marked the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala.
Between 140,000–200,000 dead and missing (estimated) [ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ] The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces are said to have committed genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala ...
Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page.() The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern ...
Spanish conquest of Petén. The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. A wide lowland plain covered with dense rainforest, Petén contains a central drainage basin with a series of lakes and areas of savannah.
Honduras supported El Salvador's invasion, but Arce's federal soldiers defeated the invasion in a 23 March battle at Arrazola (near Guatemala City). [79] Arce launched a counter-invasion into El Salvador and was defeated on 18 May at Milingo, near San Salvador. [85] [86] A depiction of the 1827 Battle of La Trinidad on the Honduran 5 lempira bill
The Spaniards, with help of indigenous allies and Tlaxcaltec troops, began to slowly conquer the peoples of Guatemala. The first and major battles involved the Kʼicheʼ people who were defeated in March 1524 and resulted in the capture of the K'iche' capital of Qʼumarkaj. [1] In 1525, Spanish conquistador of the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés ...
Pedro de Portocarrero(c. 1504[1]– c. 1539) was a Spanish conquistadorwho was active in the early 16th century in Guatemala, and Chiapasin southern Mexico.[2] He was one of the few Spanish noblemen that took part in the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and was distantly related to prominent conquistador Pedro de Alvarado ...